Kentucky...to love...or to hate...

#26
#26
Let's be realistic here. Everybody knows KY isn't going to beat the Vols this century, if ever. :eek:k:
 
#27
#27
Brian McCat said:
I loved Billy Jack. With a name like that, he could start anywhere in the South as QB1. His gutty "heroics" in that UT game in 1995(?) remind me of what could have been. He was undersized, with marginal QB skills, but he had the heart of a lion.



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Agree on all counts re: Billy Jack. He came closer than li'l Timmy Sofa ever did. BTW, that was also the COLDEST football game I have ever attended. Lexington in November is unfreindly!

Thank God for Charlie Brown's!

If it weren't for Jeff Hall, there would be one plank on the barrel with a UK win.
 
#29
#29
Brian McCat said:
How about a loss to Vandy? :huh:
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Yeah, Losing to Vandy ONCE in a QUARTER OF A CENTURY (similar to another team that shall remain nameless) is really a black mark on the Vols....It really makes all fans realize how far the team has fallen!!!!! (sarcasm, sarcasm, and more sarcasm)
 
#30
#30
Why am I wasting my time reading about Kentucky?
I should use me time wisely and check out the summer league pics of our future Final Four ballers.
 
#33
#33
Sorry, Big Blue, but you voided the meaningfulness of this relationship when you allowed Paul Bryant to leave after 7 strong years in Lexington and your LAST SEC football title. All you had to do was make him at least feel as welcome as Rupp.

Don't know what you got til its gone. :banghead2:
 
#38
#38
lawgator1 said:
Of late, the University of Florida has totally owned Kentucky in every sport.
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I have a standing bet with a friend of mine that is a UK grad. There is a bottle of fine brown liquor riding on each football and basketball game, to be paid just prior to the SEC tournament each year.

I am proud to say that, as of last year, he insisted that, rather than take all three games straight up in advance, we now use the USA Today point spread. This makes me happy, as the joy in reminding him that I have to give him points in basketball far outweighs any loss in alcohol I might incur.
 
#39
#39
Duckhook said:
Sorry, Big Blue, but you voided the meaningfulness of this relationship when you allowed Paul Bryant to leave after 7 strong years in Lexington and your LAST SEC football title. All you had to do was make him at least feel as welcome as Rupp.

Don't know what you got til its gone. :banghead2:
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Simply not true. Bryant and Rupp were great friends, even to death. The myth about Bryant getting a pocket watch or silver lighter while Rupp was given a Cadillac at the end of '53 season is completely false. In the early 70's, Bryant appeared on the Adolph Rupp show, and they joked about it, calling it a complete falsehood.

The most that I have heard on the issue is that Bryant was having a sordid little tryst with a local politician's wife, and was on the outs with some people with power, obviously.
 
#40
#40
lawgator1 said:
Of late, the University of Florida has totally owned Kentucky in every sport.
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The worm shall turn in basketball. Not counting on it in fb just yet. We pi$$ed away our best chance in 2003 in Lexington.

f1ip said:
except the dueling banjo contest.... :nono:
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Just think of fiddles whining away the tones of Rocky Top. :unsure:
 
#41
#41
cotton said:
I have a standing bet with a friend of mine that is a UK grad. There is a bottle of fine brown liquor riding on each football and basketball game, to be paid just prior to the SEC tournament each year.

I am proud to say that, as of last year, he insisted that, rather than take all three games straight up in advance, we now use the USA Today point spread. This makes me happy, as the joy in reminding him that I have to give him points in basketball far outweighs any loss in alcohol I might incur.
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This is the best standing wager I've heard of in awhile. It makes me wish that my two biggest drinking compatriots weren't a) a UT grad like me, and b) an ACC grad. Not really any way for me to steal that one until I start drinking with some Bulldog down here.

I wouldn't have caved on using the point spreads, though. Not when you guys have that kind of a standing wager going. Drink like a man; bet like a man...
 
#43
#43
Kentucky baskeball = Alabama football.

Kentucky football = Vanderbilt football. Other than that now they've actually beaten us since I started shaving.

I know that many of the games have been closer than they should have been, and sooner or later UK is going to pull one of them out (maybe even this year), but I just can't somehow make the emotional connection in my mind between the ineptitude of UK football and the Dick Cheney-ness of UK basketball. The only interesting thing about the football "rivalry" was the Beer Barrel, and thanks to the Oprahfication of America, we don't even have that anymore.
 
#44
#44
Brian McCat said:
Simply not true. Bryant and Rupp were great friends, even to death. The myth about Bryant getting a pocket watch or silver lighter while Rupp was given a Cadillac at the end of '53 season is completely false. In the early 70's, Bryant appeared on the Adolph Rupp show, and they joked about it, calling it a complete falsehood.

The most that I have heard on the issue is that Bryant was having a sordid little tryst with a local politician's wife, and was on the outs with some people with power, obviously.
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I think the poster was speaking to the accolades received from the fans and the community and not to the relationship between the two coaches.
 
#46
#46
ukvols said:
1993 was close too.
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I will never forget that despite 7 (yes, 7) interceptions that day, Doering was found wide open in the end zone to pull it out at the very end.

:censored:

2003 was just as bad, though. UK played a perfect game, led 21-3 going into the 4th quarter, then wore down in the sweltering heat due to reduced numbers and probation. :shakehead: Ended up losing 24-21 when they could have just run out the clock. 70,000 fans just sat there stunned like they couldn't believe what they'd just seen.
 
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